Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee during Thursday's debate noted that there are far more hate crimes against Jews in the U.S. than there are against Muslims — and he's absolutely right.
Though the media and many political figures have focused the nation's attention on anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S., according to FBI hate crime statistics, Jews are targeted far more than Muslims, both in absolute terms and proportionately.
In 2014, the FBI reported 1,092 hate crimes based on religious bias — 58 percent of those crimes were against Jews, compared with 16 percent that were against Muslims.
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3 comments:
Yet, our legislators are not advocating their personal liberties. Where's the ACLU's stance on this find?
thornton it does not fit the template
there are more Jews in America than Muslims and a lot of people don't them either.In fact some of us don't seem to like anybody.
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